"As de Saussure said, risk-taking brings with it its own reward: it keeps a "continual agitation alive" in the heart. Hope, fear. Hope, fear - this is the fundamental rhythm of mountaineering. Life, it..."
- Robert Macfarlane
"No, not conquer, that is too foolish a world. Any man who scales a mountain is still but a man, a transient speck compared to the immensity and permanence of a mountain ."
- James Rozoff
"If you ignore the mountain, doesn't mean mountain will ignore you too.."
- Tanveer Mazhar